Harvest Tec Incorporated

Other

Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Agco Corporation

Jeffrey Sullivan Roberts

Ryan P Johnson

Grant Lewis Good

Nyle Curtis Wollenhaupt

Joseph R Lebeda

James M Oepping

Blake Holt

L Grant Macneill

Ryan Paul Johnson

An apparatus and method for simulating the effects of dew are disclosed. The apparatus includes a moveable platform; a rotatable base, the rotatable base being connected to the platform; and a plurality of elongated rods for penetrating and spraying beneath the surface of a windrow. The rods radiate from a longitudinal axis of the rotatable base.

Device and method for spraying hot water in a fine mist to windrowed alfalfa hay to simulate the effect of dew

A device and method comprising a large square baler with a pre-comprssion chamber that accumulates hay and moves it into the compression chamber, one or more near infrared specrocopy (NIRS) sensors mounted near the top of the pre-compression chamber, a means to read inputs from the sensors only when the stuffer forks are moving hayfrom the pre-compression chamber into the main chamber and a processor to average multiple readings from the nirs sensors from that inteval.

Device and method for measuring the properties of hay using near infrared spectroscopy on a large square baler

Variable marks are applied to the outside of bales of hay that assign each bale to a group based on pre-selected parameters collected during baling.

System and method for marking bales of hay based on parameters collected during baling

In one embodiment, a method implemented in an agricultural machine harvesting alfalfa plants, the method comprising: receiving, in real time, input corresponding to a plurality of sensed parameters corresponding to alfalfa plant height and cut alfalfa volume; associating the cut alfalfa volume to an alfalfa stem diameter; and automatically determining a feed quality value for the alfalfa plants based on the sensed alfalfa plant height and the alfalfa stem diameter.

Method for estimating feed quality of alfalfa as it is cut

A method where the weight of the bale is measured by a scale on the baler, the moisture of the bale is measured by sensors on the baler and this information is sent to a processor. Based on compaction properties of the leaf verses the stem of the alfalfa, the processor calculates a feeding value for the hay including protein, energy and relative feed value on the dry density of the bale. Additional inputs such as the compaction setting of the baler and information about the hay being harvested can also be input into the processor for making adjustment to the feeding value calculation.

Method for calculating feed value of alfalfa hay using information available at time of baling

A system and method for measuring the moisture of a harvested crop, such as hay, in the pre-compression chamber of a harvesting apparatus, such as a large square hay baler. Measurement at this time provides a highly accurate and reliable moisture reading. The apparatus disclosed includes two or more sensors disposed at separate positions in the pre-compression chamber. The sensors sense electrical conductivity or RF wave transmission through the hay in the pre-compression chamber.

Device and method for measuring the moisture of hay in the pre-compression chamber of a rectangular baler

Apparatus for calculating feed value of alfalfa hay using information available at time of baling

The device that has been invented senses moisture contact of round bales as they are formed in the chamber of a round baler, by supplying voltage to a sensor located on one of the side walls of the baler and reading the voltage on a second sensor located on the opposing side wall of the baler.

Device to measure the moisture of hay in a round baler

A system and methods for identifying individual loads of chopped forage in storage. Thus the field factors of crop, soil and harvest conditions that affect feeding quality or a quality analysis of the load can be associated with the forage as it is removed from storage and fed to livestock.

System and method for identifying individual loads of chopped forage in storage

A System and Method for Identifying Individual Loads of Chopped Forage in Storage. Thus the field factors of crop, soil and harvest conditions that affect feeding quality or a quality analysis of the load can be associated with the forage as it is removed from storage and fed to livestock.

A system and method for tagging individual bales of hay as they are baled and recording information regarding the moisture, weight, preservative applied, field position, quality and other information available at the time of baling, all sequenced to the formation of the bale by a timing and positioning device.

System and method for identifying bales of hay

A system and method for tagging individual bales of hay as they are baled and recording information regarding the moisture, weight, preservative applied. Field position, quality and other information available at the time of baling;, all sequenced to the formation of the bale by a timing and positioning device.

An apparatus, method and system for applying a biologically active or chemical substance to a relatively large volume harvested or pre-harvested crop includes relatively small container of a mixture biologically active or chemical substance and water in fluid communication with fluid conduit. A pump moves mixture from the bottle through the conduit. A source of pressurized air is in fluid communication with the conduit to aerate the mixture. The aerated mixture is expelled through a nozzle at distal end of the conduit. In one aspect, the controller can monitor speed of the pump by monitoring operating voltage of the pump. Speed of the pump can be adjusted to adjust application rate. In one aspect, a process combines a flow of air through an orifice with the metering of a low volume of additive, such as an aid to preservation, to a crop as it is being cut or harvested to provide for even distribution of the additive to the crop.

Apparatus, method and system for applying substances to forage, grain, and harvested crops

The method of the invention mounts a mechanical fluffing or tedding device that is approximately the width of a tractor tire directly in line and behind the left hand wheels of a tractor pulling a hay mowing implement so that the area of previously cut hay that has been compacted by the wheels of the tractor is immediately tedded or fluffed and the area of non-compacted hay is not tedded or fluffed. The drying time of the hay is therefore reduced, due to the elimination of the compacted area that normally dries slower than the hay that is not compacted.

Process for tedding or fluffing cut hay that has been compacted by the

The process of this invention uses 2 bars to tip alfalfa or clover hay forward while a third bar holds spray devices that deliver liquid chemical drying agents to the crop in such a way that most of the chemical is applied to the plant's stems and very little is applied to the plant's leaves. Effectiveness of the liquid chemical drying agents is maximized in this way.

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Hudson, WI, United States of America

Jeffrey Sullivan Roberts